The

scientific name In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ...

× ''Amarcrinum'' is applied to those hybrid plants obtained from artificial crosses between the genera ''

Amaryllis ''Amaryllis'' () is the only genus in the subtribe Amaryllidinae (tribe Amaryllideae). It is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species. The better known of the two, '' Amaryllis belladonna'', is a native of the Western Cape region of ...

'' and ''

Crinum ''Crinum'' is a genus of about 180 species of perennial plants that have large showy flowers on leafless stems, and develop from bulbs. They are found in seasonally moist areas, including marshes, swamps, depressions and along the sides of strea ...

'', although , the

World Checklist of Selected Plant Families The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (usually abbreviated to WCSP) was an "international collaborative programme that provides the latest peer reviewed and published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected p ...

regards the name as "unplaced". They are grown as

ornamental plant Ornamental plants or ''garden plants'' are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space. Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars th ...

s in gardens.

Description

There are several variations possible since many species of ''Crinum'' can be combined with either of the two species of ''Amaryllis'' to produce hybrids with different characteristics. In general, almost all the hybrids have been between ''Crinum powellii'' and ''Amaryllis belladonna''. This

bulbous In botany, a bulb is a short underground stem with fleshy leaves or leaf basesBell, A.D. 1997. ''Plant form: an illustrated guide to flowering plant morphology''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K. that function as food storage organs duri ...

garden

perennial In horticulture, the term perennial ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the year") is used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. It has thus been defined as a plant that lives more than 2 years. The term is also ...

has wide, deep green, tough, leathery, strap-shaped leaves to 60 cm long. The flower colour and exact growth habit will vary depending on which parental species have been used to make the cross but all of them are sweetly scented like ''Amaryllis'' with the tidy habit of evergreen ''Crinum''. During late summer loose umbels of large, scented, pink funnel shaped flowers are held on stout stems, around 10 to 15 blooms on each.

Hybrid species

Two species have been named, although neither name is accepted by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. * × ''Amarcrinum memoria-corsii'' (Ragionieri) H. E. Moore is the result of crossing ''

Amaryllis belladonna ''Amaryllis belladonna'', the Jersey lily, belladonna-lily, naked-lady-lily, or March lily, is a plant species native to Cape Province in South Africa but widely cultivated as an ornamental. It is reportedly naturalized in many places: Corsica, ...

'' × ''

Crinum moorei ''Crinum moorei'' is a herbaceous plant belonging to the family Amaryllidaceae, and native to South Africa (the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal). Taxonomy Synonyms *Homotypic **''Amaryllis moorei'' (Joseph Dalton Hooker, Hook.f.) *Heterotypic ...

''. * × ''Amarcrinum traubii'' is the triple hybrid obtained by crossing ''Amaryllis'' × ''parkeri'' 'Hathor' × ''Crinum moorei''.

Uses

Several cultivars of × ''Amarcrinum'' have been raised and all of them are used as

References

External links

Images of ''× Amarcrinum '' from International Bulb Society
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amarcrinum Amaryllidaceae genera Plant nothogenera Garden plants of Africa Amaryllidoideae